EBP - e-learning programmes

Amongst the extensive range of BMJ online interactive learning modules, there are modules on audit, finding and evaluating the evidence and managing change. Use the search facility on BMJ Learning to find modules like these:

Audit: How to do it in practice

NICE: evidence into practice - how to use audit to improve patient care

Evidence based medicine: how to find the answers to your clinical questions

Understanding statistics

Becoming an agent of change: key principles and practice examples of managing change (click here for more 'change management' resources).

To help develop your Internet research skills in general, a collection of tutorials is available here. The Internet Detective, for example, looks at quality assessment and the critical thinking required when using the Internet for research.

Evaluating the evidence

‘How to read a paper’ series by Trisha Greenhalgh (electronic version on BMJ, NHS Athens login required).

This resource is one of many listed in a Subject Guide to Critical Appraisal produced by MKH Library. If you are looking for e-learning courses on critical appraisal, the guide will point you to these as well as online resources for critical appraisal checklists, calculator tools, glossaries and health research reporting standards.